Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a discussion in Burr A, Herbert J. Spiro '50, instructor in Government, said that reunification is unlikely for two main reasons. He felt that it is impossible unless the Russians want it to occur, which seems improbable at the present time...
...Francis H. Burr Scholarship for the senior who combines the qualities of "character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability" possessed by Burr, football captain in 1908, was won by track captain Arthur G. Siler '56 of Winthrop House and Orinda, Calif. He is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and won a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford next year...
Away from the noise of the House Party weekend, over 300 scientists and humanists gathered in the Faculty Club and Burr Hall to honor P.W. Bridgman '04, Higgins University Emeritus, and Philipp Frank, former lecturer in Physics, both eminent philosophers of science...
...visitors, attending a conference called "Science and the Modern World View--Toward a Common Understanding of the Sciences and the Humanities," left no doubt that they had come to honor Bridgman and Frank when the two men received standing ovations after their speeches in Burr Hall...
...most of the time there was only the quiet give-and-take among scholars. At Burr, the visitors assembled to hear speeches and discuss them...